A software-development team in University of Tsukuba.
The purpose of SoftEther Project is to distribute SoftEther VPN, to develop SoftEther VPN continuously, to promote academic researches around VPN, and to support users of SoftEther VPN on the forum. The project is hosted by University of Tsukuba, Japan. It mainly consists of student-members of the University.
The inception of SoftEther Project was Daiyuu Nobori's freeware. He programmed "SoftEther 1.0" as his personal project, in 2003, when he was 18, the first year in the University. After "SoftEther 1.0" was released, Government of Japan enforced him to stop the distributing of SoftEther 1.0 for free of charge. The reason was: SoftEther 1.0 is a dangerous tool for both computer-security and the existing commercial VPN vendors' industry. Despite his objection, the bureaucracy of Japanese Government enforced him to stop the distribution of SoftEther 1.0 as freeware. More details visit http://www.softether.org/9-about web site.
